Students at Michigan State University College of law are being challenged to come up with plans that would reinvent the delivery of legal services.
The ReInvent Law Start-Up Competition challenges student entrepreneurs to explore new business plans and create better delivery models that match appropriately qualified lawyers with the clients who need them.
“One of the main goals of our new ReInvent Law Laboratory is to cultivate learners who will invent the future of law practice,” said Renee Newman Knake, associate professor of law and co-director of MSU Law’s ReInvent Law Laboratory. “This start-up competition will encourage our law students to use creative approaches in their future practice, and to create new legal service delivery models through research and experimentation.”
To compete, students must submit a 150- to 300-word description of their business models to Sam Rysdyk at rysdyksa@law.msu.edu by Feb. 15.
Preliminary selections will be made the week of Feb. 18.
Finalists each will have six minutes to pitch their ideas at the inaugural competition, which will be held in MSU Law’s Castle Board Room from 4-6 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 25.
Winners will receive up to $2,500 in seed money to develop and launch their ideas. The ReInvent Law Start-Up Competition is sponsored by MSU Law, the ReInvent Law Laboratory, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, and MSU Federal Credit Union.
MSU officials say the ReInvent Law Laboratory strives to cultivate a community of innovation and entrepreneurship in the delivery of legal services.
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